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I currently have a black box policy with Admiral, my insurance is up for renewal soon and I am most likely going to switch insurers. Does anyone know if the insurance company will remove the black box? I can't find this anywhere on their website.

I currently have a black box policy with Admiral, my insurance is up for renewal soon and I am most likely going to switch insurers. Does anyone know if the insurance company will remove the black box? I can't find this anywhere on their website.

Why not phone admiral they are in a better position to know that a forum unrelated to the company.
Personally I will just whip the wire cutters out the day after my insurance lapses.
Not that I would ever actually let anyone fit a black box in the first place.

If you change cars whilst insured with Admiral, they don't remove the black box from your old vehicle. All they do is to disable it remotely and leave it there.
Unless you know exactly how it is connected up, leaving it in place and getting Admiral to disable it is probably the safest option.

If you change cars whilst insured with Admiral, they don't remove the black box from your old vehicle. All they do is to disable it remotely and leave it there.
Unless you know exactly how it is connected up, leaving it in place and getting Admiral to disable it is probably the safest option.

Yeah, the usual procedure is just for them to disable it I think. I will call them when I'm home from work.

I don't want to leave it there disabled, it looks ugly and I want it gone! I just don't know how it wired up, and don't want to damage my car given that it's glued on with some seriously sticky material.

Yeah, the usual procedure is just for them to disable it I think. I will call them when I'm home from work.

I don't want to leave it there disabled, it looks ugly and I want it gone! I just don't know how it wired up, and don't want to damage my car given that it's glued on with some seriously sticky material.

Glued to where? Normally a black box is screwed to a frame and secured further with cable ties and is out of sight behind a panel.

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

What's Admiral's thinking behind this one then? That some other poor sucker might insure the vehicle with them and if they are forced down the black box route - hey presto! It's already there. Job done! Or am I being too cynical?

What's Admiral's thinking behind this one then? That some other poor sucker might insure the vehicle with them and if they are forced down the black box route - hey presto! It's already there. Job done! Or am I being too cynical?

It's not the box that is the issue, it's the SIM that's in it. The SIM is 'killed' remotely so that your location data cannot be transmitted to the insurer if you are no longer insured with them. Without an active SIM, the box is useless.

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

What's Admiral's thinking behind this one then? That some other poor sucker might insure the vehicle with them and if they are forced down the black box route - hey presto! It's already there. Job done! Or am I being too cynical?

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

It's not the box that is the issue, it's the SIM that's in it. The SIM is 'killed' remotely so that your location data cannot be transmitted to the insurer if you are no longer insured with them. Without an active SIM, the box is useless.

As soon as your policy expires, the insurer has no right to continue to track you so the company that provided the tech will kill the SIM over the airwaves so that no DPA breach occurs. Once a SIM is killed there is no resurrecting it

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Power wise, that's correct - but there are very few vehicles where the OBD socket is under the bonnet. Only examples I can think of are now twenty year old Nissan Almeras like my wife had about 13 years ago, and BMWs with the big round diagnostic socket which isnt the same as an OBD socket anyway. There may be others, but the vast majority of cars I've come across, they're inside the cabin.

However, it is certainly feasible the black box could be plugged into an OBD socket, but it wouldn't be that useful for anything other than getting speed of the vehicle from the VSS, everything else would be dealt with via accelerometers and GPS receiver in the box itself.

Based on this from the op - "I just don't know how it wired up, and don't want to damage my car given that it's glued on with some seriously sticky material" - I doubt it's plugged into the OBD port...

All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

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